S2 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



miugtoii and Baltimoiw and the Peunsylvauia. agreed like^rise to carry 

 the packages five. The givater part of the exhibit of the United States 

 was shipi>ed fix>iu Baltimore by the Bremen steamers, although most 

 of the packages coutentrated at New York were embarked from that 

 city, as also Mr. Croode's immediate staff, consisting of ^Ir. F. W. True 

 and Mr. J. E. Eockwell of his oltice foive. with Mr. Fi-eil Mather, expert 

 n tish cultnre. Capt. J. W. Collins, expert in lisheries. and Mr. Joseph Pal- 

 mer in charge of the models and casts. Mr. Goode left "Washington on 

 the IGth of Maivh and Siiiled in the Bremen steamer JV«"A<7r on the 20th, 

 the company granting a concession of one-fourth of th? faiv. 



A large portion of the goods weiv found in Bivmen on the arrival ot 

 the party, and these were sent forward to Berlin and unpacked in time 

 for very satisfactory opening of the Exhibition on the 20ih of April. 

 Some smaller collections, sent at a later date, were received subsequently. 

 A large amount of space had been assigned to the United States, but 

 this Innng inadequate a portion of that grantetl to Givat Britain, and 

 not occupied by her exhibitor"^, was added. The section of the United 

 States was ornamented by a large number of flags lent for the puri>ose 

 by the Xavy and War Departments, and the display as a whole was very 

 effective. 



It is now a matter of history that the United States bore off the chief 

 honors of the occasion, the superlatives of the critics being exhausted 

 in their praises of its methcxl. richness, and great intrinsic value. Indeeil 

 the entire collection of the remaining jxirtion of the International Ex- 

 hibit of Fish and Fisheries would not have made a single exhibit of 

 anything like the importance of that of the United States. In illustration 

 of this fact it may be stated that the grand prize given by the Emperor 

 of Gt?rmauy to the Exhibition, for the best display, Wivs avraixled to the 

 United States. This consisted of a large vase, three feet high, beauti- 

 fully worked in silver and gold, and costing over $2.(HM\ In addition 

 to the grraud prize there were numerous other awards in the way of 

 mciials of gold, silver, and bronze to contributors from this country, ;ind 

 the number of these awaitis would have been much gi-eater but for the 

 fact that the greater part of these contributions were made as part of i hat 

 of the United States Fish Commission. The same policy was pursuetl 

 there as at the Philadelphia exhibition: where objects were presented 

 to the Institution and to the United Slates, they were entered for si>ecial 

 consideration as individual exhibits : but where they were purchased for 

 the exhibition they became the property of the Unitetl States, ;iiid their 

 individiuUity was lost in the general display. ^Many persons who piv- 

 ferred to receive the comparatively slight money- value of the objects ob- 

 tained from them, were greatly disappointed on finding that, however 

 meritorious, their articles were passed over by the judges and no awanls 

 made for them. 



It was originally supposed that the exhibition would close on the 1st 

 of June, after a six weeks" display. Very much interest, however, was 



